The first in a series of podcasts presenting my favourite pieces of English literature, beginning with John Keats and the Ode to Autumn. [powerpress channel="podcast"] ...
I just discovered an amazing contemporary Spanish surrealist called Paco Pommet at the Richard Heller Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica. His paintings are on show till October 20th. And are well worth checking out....
The first of a podcast series about my favorite pieces of literature, beginning with a brief recap of John Keats' life and ending with a reading of Ode to Autumn [powerpress channel="podcast"]...
Celebrating the Magical Mystery Tour album, which I first heard when I was in Borneo in 1968 - and loved....
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I've just had a blast being interviewed about #AgeofExodus by Angie McCartney and her daughter Ruth from their secret studio in Playa del Rey. They were great andYou can see the results here. https://www.facebook.com/drangiemccartney/videos/2044016325618672/...
I've just discovered the Author URL for my Amazon author page! Here it is! amazon.com/author/gavinscott Do visit for the latest news on #AgeofExodus, the latest Duncan Forrester mystery thriller featuring Ernest Bevin, the creation of Israel and a Sumerian demon!...
I'm delighted to report that the audiobook of the second Duncan Forrester adventure, the one set in Greece, is now available via Audible, Amazon and all good audiobook outlets. If you want to listen to an (illustrated) sample, check it out on Youtube. And I hope you enjoy it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfZ4O2Exwys...
I've just done belated replies to a number of nice letters people sent about my various projects, belated because I haven't had time to update the website over the last few months for the following reasons. 1.I've been preparing The Age of Exodus, my third Duncan Forrester thriller, for publication this September. It's set in 1947 and involves an ancient Sumerian demon, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, a ship called Exodus and the creation of Israel. 2. I've been writing The Age of Orwell, the fourth Duncan Forrester thriller, featuring George Orwell as...
Great fun this weekend at the Cary Grant Theatre on the Sony lot doing a BAFTA Q & A about Blade Runner 2049 with actors Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling, director Denis Villeneuve, Cinematographer Roger Deakins, Production Designer Denis Gassner and VFX Superivsor John Nelson - the brilliant people who made this terrific movie. ...
Happy to report that Absolutely Anything, the film I wrote with Terry Jones, is now on Netflix in the USA, starring Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Eddie Izzard, Rob Riggle, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Joanna Lumley and featuring the Pythons as the Galactic Council of Supreme Beings. And Robin Williams as The Dog. Oh, and I'm reading the news. 90 minutes of pure silliness guaranteed....
Susan McDuffie has written a wonderful review of The Age of Olympus in the prestigious Historical Novels Review. Here's an extract: “This thrilling mystery moves at a breakneck pace. Replete with shape-shifting villains, femme fatales, mysterious relics, and an enchanted island, this hero’s journey makes an entertaining read.” Thank you, Susan! ...
Delighted to see on Facebook that more than 200,000 people have viewed the trailer for my movie Small Soldiers to mark its 19th anniversary. Roll on the sequel!...
https://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-Thrillers/The-Age-of-Treachery-Audiobook/B0727WZYC8?qid=1499468798&sr=1-1 I'm proud to announce that the Audiobook of The Age of Treachery is now available on Audible, via this address. Thanks to Leonard Jackson at Bleed101 who produced and recorded. Have fun!...
Success! The international jet set adopts #AgeOfOlympus Titan Books. This just in a from a villa in Tuscany!...
Great evening last night moderating a fascinating BAFTA LA discussion on crime writing for page and screen with ace LA Times crime reporter and short story writer James Queally, 18 million selling UK crime novelist Peter James (who writes the Brighton-based Roy Grace novels), and 80 million selling US crime writer Michael Connelly, creator of Harry Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer. Needless to say they all got copies of #AgeOfOlympusTitan Books and Mr James began reading it right away! ...
John Harlow, who spent 24 years as one of the London Sunday Times' best reporters, just reviewed The Age of Olympus on Amazon with these words: 5.0 out of 5 stars A lively and free spirited heir to a great tradition ByJ. Harlow on May 31, 2017 Format: Paperback|Verified Purchase Classic thriller writing in the school of Eric Ambler, Alan Furst and maybe even early Ian Fleming. A lively and free spirited heir to a great tradition - can't wait to read what the author pens next! ...
To say I'm flattered to be compared on Amazon.com to Agatha Christie by the former chairman of EMI, the company which produced Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile is MAJOR understatement. But sometimes you just have to roll with the punches ...
I was enormously lucky to grow up in a house on Summergangs Road in East Hull, because it backed on to one of the most magical places in the city: East Park. You could get to it from our tiny back garden just by wriggling under the wooden fence, and once there the imaginative child was in a cornucopia of delight. Even today, in far away Southern California, whenever I think of the great floral clock in the middle of the park, and remember the scent of the Sweet William...
Janet Rudolph, on her excellent website Mystery Readers Inc, got me to write about why I decided to explore the second half of the 1940's in my detective novels, and in answering the question, I discovered some things I didn't know when I began! Here's the link: https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2017/05/exploring-roots-of-baby-boomer-era.html ...
A big shout out to the kind people who have begun reviewing #AgeOfOlympus @TitanBooks on Amazon - and particularly to New York Times Best Selling author Bruce Cameron with a hit movie based on his delightful "A Dog's Purpose". Here's hoping at least some of his millions of readers follow his wise lead into the world of Duncan Forrester!...